If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.